Idaho’s Supreme Court recently issued a new opinion discussing the requirements to form a valid lease agreement. Unfortunately, the case raises as many questions as it answers....more
2/24/2023
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While the Idaho legislature has been making it harder to lose real property rights through carelessness or inaction, the Idaho Supreme Court has been making it easier. In Idaho, and most other states, it has long been the law...more
Two recent opinions of the Idaho Supreme Court, both filed on the same day, concern what the Court described in one those cases as “a sadly familiar story: an oral real estate transaction gone terribly wrong.”...more
Every once in a while we run across a client who asks us to draft their real estate purchase and sale agreement, but then opts to go it alone when it comes time to close the deal. The recent case of Lee v. Willow Creek Ranch...more
The recent Idaho Supreme Court case of Nielson v. Talbot, Docket No. 44864 (Idaho 2018), highlights some risks of dealing in land that has not been surveyed and of using warranty deeds....more
The Idaho Supreme Court provided important lessons to people who deal with rights of first refusal (ROFRs) on real property in its recent decision Mulberry v. Burns Concrete, Inc., No. 45184 (Idaho Feb. 21, 2019). A ROFR is a...more